Chris Randall got a note from someone saying that good neighbors do not play their music so loud. Later he got a note saying that there was going to be a meeting to start a community garden. He didn't know about gardens but he recognized the handwriting and was curious. It turns out a graduate student had moved to William Street and cried because she was living on a street with boarded up houses. She had decided the best thing for the neighborhood would be a community garden so she called a meeting and her group converted a vacant trash filled lot on the street (See first picture) into a thriving community garden with the help of The New Haven Land Trust, Inc. The street no longer has boarded up houses and the transformed good neighbor became the garden coordinator when the graduate student moved on. She cried when she left the neighborhood too!
Abandoned city lots
made productive
Cedar raised beds, compost and manure, seeds, plants, and water
Chris Randall got a note from someone saying that good neighbors do not play their music so loud. Later he got a note saying that there was going to be a meeting to start a community garden. He didn't know about gardens but he recognized the handwriting and was curious. It turns out a graduate student had moved to William Street and cried because she was living on a street with boarded up houses. She had decided the best thing for the neighborhood would be a community garden so she called a meeting and her group converted a vacant trash filled lot on the street (See first picture) into a thriving community garden with the help of The New Haven Land Trust, Inc. The street no longer has boarded up houses and the transformed good neighbor became the garden coordinator when the graduate student moved on. She cried when she left the neighborhood too!
